Jennifer Doudna, faculty biochemist in Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging, and her work on the CRISPR/Cas 9 gene editing system, have been highlighted recently in both The New Yorker Magazine and on CBS This Morning. The coverage discusses the benefits and perils of this technology, which is the topic of an international meeting being held currently at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
Ken Downing of the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division is a recipient of the 2015 Berkeley Lab Prize − Lifetime Achievement Award for his scientific advances and leadership in making Berkeley Lab among the world’s forefront centers for electron microscopy. Downing, who received the award together with Uli Dahmen and Peter Denes, has been … Read more »
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Basic biology research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has led to the formation of Cinder Biological, or CinderBio, a startup company producing a new class of enzymes made from microbes, or extremophiles, that thrive in hot volcanic waters. Co-founded by Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging scientists Steve Yannone and Jill Fuss, CinderBio will … Read more »
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Scientists have gained insight on how some molecules are allowed to enter and exit the nucleus while keeping other molecules out. Their research, led by Mohammad Mofrad in the Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division, is a step forward in building a more comprehensive understanding of nuclear pore complex function, which has numerous implications in … Read more »
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A team of scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus designed a fluorescent protein (CaMPARI) that causes permanent marking of active brain cells. They validated this new tool via x-ray crystallographic studies at the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology at the Advanced Light Source.
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